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If you guys enjoyed that you should really check out Redbull's "The Art of Flight" snowboard film. It's absolutely insane and it shows why prefer snowboarding over snowmobiling (both are fun, just more freedom in snowboarding). It's on Netflix, insanely good.

The snowmobile belonged to Shane McConkey, a legend in the ski community and very involved in the base jumping community. He was one of the pioneers of ski base jumping, and this is something his freinds did as a tribute to him. He passed away in 2009 during a ski base jump accident.

A bit environmentally irresponsible. That engine has gas and oil in it. Smashing it onto the rocks on this pristine mountainside is kind of like throwing a car battery into a clean stream, sort of a dick maneuver.

There's a backstory... it belonged to a famous base jumper that died on a base jump (go figure) and he left it to his friend. Well the friend, in honor of the base jumper, took the snowmobile base jumping. Still a waste of a snowmobile though... Their excuse was that it was almost near the end of its life.

Hear something go bump in the night, then it's just silent—you almost wish another noise would sound so you could better know what's going on. But instead, it's just that awful anticipation as your mind races and your senses all hone in on nothing...

When the engine tries to turn the wheel, it must push on the wheel, which in return resists movement and pushes back on the engine and vehicle. So if you try to rotate the track one way the vehicle spins the opposite way a little. A good example of this is in space, where if you push off an object the object goes one way and you push off into the opposite way.

Centrifugal force has nothing to do with air resistance. It is a force created by mass rotating. The faster the mass rotates the more centrifugal force there is. The same theory applies to dirt bikes flying through the air. You can feel it for yourself by holding a bike wheel in your hands and having someone spin it fast.

as others have noted, he's controlling the angle of the sled while it's in-flight. think of it as an expensive-ass gyroscope, which really ... most things are once they're airborne (source: motocross guy). everything centers around the point of power delivery, which is at the rear axle.

the brakes slow the rotation of the rear axle, which will bring the front down. the throttle has the opposite effect of bringing the rear down as it spins up and stretches the rear suspension, with the side effect of making the front seem like it's come up. in reality, the rear has just dropped faster. all that matters to the rider is the angle of approach on landing.

you'll notice he pins the throttle (the right hand) just before he lands, the reason for doing this is what i mentioned above. the action of hitting the throttle while you're in the air will kick the subframe down as far as the suspension will let it (100% uncompressed), which means when you hit you've got the benefit of letting the vehicle's suspension go through all of the travel it has available, plus the forward momentum. landing off of even a relatively small altitude without knowing how to take advantage of the suspension will hurt you. this guy knows what he's doing.

I have dreams that feel just like an extremely long fall that accelerates faster and faster like this, but minus the snowmobile. I'm not talking about those "feels like I'm falling for a second when I'm drifting off to sleep" twitches. Does anyone else get these?